Description
The Enterprise Architect, Recovery and Resiliency owns the direction of GSK's resiliency, business continuity, and disaster recovery architecture across technology domains.
The role sets the target state for enterprise resiliency, defining standards and reusable patterns for recovery, failover, and continuity of service across platforms and domains.
Key Responsibilities:
- Confirm that Architecture Review Board trigger criteria are met, and route demand that can be resolved at Technical Design Authority or delivery level back to those forums rather than escalating it.
- Prepare and collate the documented architectural impacts, solution options, trade-offs and recommendations that the Architecture Review Board decides on.
- Review and approve architecture exceptions and new technology patterns that fall outside established enterprise standards, recording the reasoning so the precedent is usable.
- Contribute to defining, maintaining and evolving enterprise architecture principles, standards and guardrails, and the technology framework and business capability model, in line with business and technology strategy.
- Provide architectural guidance on key design decisions across DPTF, working with the Platform Architecture Directors and Solution Architects rather than duplicating their designs.
- Contribute to the Architecture Runway owned by the Director, EA Standards and Governance, including the approach to incubating and scaling emerging technology.
- Assess where AI capability belongs in the enterprise architecture and set the patterns and guardrails for its adoption rather than approving deployments case by case.
- Provide architectural input to the DPTF Strategic Funding Review, so investment cases carry an architectural view of cost, risk and fit before decisions are taken.
- Ensure enterprise architecture standards reflect security, resilience and GxP requirements, working with Information Security and Quality rather than restating their standards.
- Escalate architectural decisions that exceed Board authority to the DPTF SteerCo, and support the presentation of the case in that forum.
- Increase pattern reuse and standards adherence across DPTF, evidencing both through exception volume and repeat design issues rather than by assertion.
- Hold the boundaries with the Platform Architecture Directors on domain target architecture, the Solution Architects on initiative designs, and the Director, Tech Strategy Manager on technology strategy development.
Basic Qualifications:
- Degree in a technology or engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated experience in technology architecture, including experience at enterprise or cross-domain level.
- Experience defining or maintaining enterprise architecture principles, standards or a business capability model.
- Experience operating an architecture review or governance forum, including declining demand that belonged at a lower level.
- Track record approving or refusing architecture exceptions and being answerable for the precedent set.
- Breadth across several technology domains, sufficient to judge trade-offs outside a personal specialism.
- Experience in a regulated environment, ideally pharmaceutical or GxP, where architecture decisions carry compliance consequence.
- Practical view on where AI capability belongs in an enterprise architecture and what guardrails it needs.
- Track record defining enterprise resiliency standards.
- Experience in a regulated environment, ideally pharmaceutical or GxP, where resiliency decisions carry compliance consequence.
- Practical experience with cloud resiliency patterns across Azure and/or GCP.
- Working knowledge of SRE practices at enterprise standard-setting level.
Work Arrangements: This role offers a hybrid working model, with a mix of on-site and remote work.